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The lost Art of Hand Washing

The lost Art of Hand Washing

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When the Kenyan Cabinet Secretary in charge of Health Mutahi Kagwe introduced Dr Myriam Sidibe who has a PhD in Public Health focused on hand washing to demonstrate to Kenyans how one should wash their hands, mouths were left open. How did someone do a full PhD that is…

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Living in the Age of Corona Virus

Living in the Age of Corona Virus

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How are we to live in the times of the Corona Virus? The same way we have lived in the age of road accidents, landslides, mercury in sugar, aflatoxins, HIV, malaria, collapsing classrooms and other day to day disasters that faced us in 2019 and prior. In other words,…

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The Problem of Fake News

The Problem of Fake News

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Was the world ready for the age where everybody would be a media outlet? Technology has made it easy for anybody to reach a mass audience. A single social media or website post from an obscure source can go viral and influence the world in large scale. Consequently, everybody…

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Internet Addiction

Internet Addiction

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The internet is an important platform for today’s communication; that is why you are able to read this article. However, just like any other good thing, the internet is prone to abuse through such things as fueling disinformation, cyber-attacks, online bullying, health issues and even internet addiction. One common…

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Why I will be Running for the Bibleless in 2020

Why I will be Running for the Bibleless in 2020

Posted on 3 min read

As Kenyans, we have a propensity of solving many things by running. We run to school, run from hunger, run for money and run from responsibilities. We run for offices, run campaigns, run programs and activities at work, and even have national season of running noses. This could explain…

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17 Business Lessons I’ve Learnt Building a Tech Company

17 Business Lessons I’ve Learnt Building a Tech Company

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I have spent most of my working years thinking about Cloud services and offering them at Truehost Cloud. I have experienced great success and also failures. Now that it is the time of the year that I audit my life because I am turning one year older, I decided…

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Sudden Death

Sudden Death

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“You and I hear of sudden deaths and yet we imagine we shall not die suddenly.” – C.H. Spurgeon. Death by Many Names There are many euphemisms for death: To pass away, pass on, lose one’s life, breathe one’s last, meet one’s end, meet one’s death, lay down one’s…

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Why Air-crash Accident Investigations Take Long and What We can Learn from Them

Why Air-crash Accident Investigations Take Long and What We can Learn from Them

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Flying is one of the safest modes of transport today, and it is not by chance that it is so. It is a result of years of research and learning, majorly through simulations and very good engineering, but also through learning from mistakes that are made. During the infant…

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Letter from Middle Earth

Letter from Middle Earth

Posted on 5 min read

Dear earthlings, Where I live, we have neither electricity nor cars. We do not have access to the internet, and most of us think that we actually do not need it. We usually do not have money, although we are not poor. We have more food than we need….

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It Matters how we Collectively Bring up our Children

It Matters how we Collectively Bring up our Children

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As a young parent, I am entitled to give my opinion on parenting based on the fact that I know very little. I am wallowing in the comfort of blissful ignorance, or what the people who study human minds and behavior call unconscious incompetence. I have not parented long…

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